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Audrey Tumbarello
from Brooklyn

Stop picking on Buffalo!Buffalo has so much to offer..a great Philharmonic sited in an Aero Saarinen building, a world class museum (Albright Knox) as well as the Burchfield Museum, a (currently being restored) Frank Lloyd house, reasonably priced housing stock, tons of low priced family restaurants where you can enjoy Polish food as well as other nouvelle and ethnic cuisine, a lively music and theater scene,a great SUNY university as well as smaller colleges, a downtown area of distinctive beauty, farmer markets, etc. etc.Although I live in (trendy) Park Slope, I visit family there often and am always busy and happy to be in this lively city.

I have an old postcard of Shelter House in Flower Garden, Prospect Park.Can you tell me anything about the House? There is no date on the postcard, but I also have a 1910 card of Ocean Parkway entrance to the Park (sent by Ralph to Ohio.)

Nice segment on Prospect Park. In addition to its historical and architectural significance, it's also really important for migrating birds. I was going to share a memory of one walk I led for Brooklyn Bird Club last spring during which we saw 94 species of birds including 24 species of very beautiful warblers.

Anna Sayle is a terrible moderator. Boring and humorless, and she often has a caller on and ignores what they say. Please do not have her on again. There must be a million people in NYC who could do a better job.

My mother, in her 70s, recalls croquet games in the park, which seems like a story book. She also recalls May Day festivities, with a May pole. My own wonderful memoory is more frm the natural world-- once while jogging, I came across a juvenile red-tailed hawk low in the trees, jumping from branch to branch. It was an enormous, wild-looking bird, and absolutely silent. It was breathtaking.

I intensely dislike the management of public parks (including Central Park as well as Prospect) by private nonprofit entities. My taxes are intended for public facilities such as these and I am tired of getting donation requests from entities controlling *my* public space. I have also lived near Prospect Park for the last 25+ years, and the disparity in improvements has been notable. The wealthier Park Slope side of the park, including the roadway, the playgrounds, the Bandshell, the green spaces, has gotten the priority in maintenance and renovation activity. I well know about bike riding along the roadway, and the repaved section routinely ends at the Empire Blvd section and restarts near the Grand Army Plaza end. The benches and water fountains on the Park Slope side have also been maintained/replaced long before the less-well-off Crown Heights/Prospect Lefferts side. With a nonprofit running the park--making these decisions--control is taken away from the elected officials who we vote in to actually manage public facilities and given to a separate entity that is increasingly more accountable to donors than to the public, whose tax dollars are increasingly decreased by public officials.

Most of the park is top notch, But I am always amazed by the stretch of Flatbush/Ocean ave which looks pretty neglected. Compare that with the Prospect Park section which looks like an exterior shot of Downton Abbey!!

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